Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-10-04
OREGON NEWS.
Everything Of General Interest IN
Condensed Form.


The coming planting season WI,
witness a large increase III the orcliaio
acreage about Ashland.
The farm residence of Nj. Moses near
Tangent, Lane county, was burned
with nearly all the contents.
Fire destroyed the residence OF Geo.
Black. situated near Jacksonville. NO
insurance. Nothing was saved.
Wallace Struble has been engaged
NV the Portland Board of Trade to
manage the immigration rooms.
The fifteenth annual fair of Union
county begins at the fair grounds near
Island City, November 3, and con-
tunes six days.
John Bazzil killed buck elk on
NARROW creek, which weighed oOo
mounds, dressed. 1t measured 10 hands
high and was liz feet long.
Farmers in the vicinity OF Zenas,
Polk county, are now through hauling
their grain to the various warehouses,
and are getting ready for putting In
another crop.
Tt is said that the sheriff of Mullno-
nah county has a brace OF blood
hounds at the county Jail in training
to be used in helping to recapture es
Gaping prisoners.
The proposed new courthouse OF
Benton county will cost $4,000, and
will be in the Ionic style OF archl-
lecture, and be of brick and stone. 1t
will be built in 1888.
A. ]. Porter, an Eastern capitalist,
proposes to build a 100000 hotel in
Portland, provided he is given a sub
sidy of $250,O0O. w. s. Ladd headed
the subscription list with d donation
of $4,000.
B. F. Jones, OF Perrydale, while tan
ming decrskin not long ago cut his
finger. The wound mortified and the
notification extended above the
elbow, but amputation of the arm
saved his life.
Another murder committed on Sis
/, kiyou mountain. Mike Sullivan, shift
boss in the big tunnel, stabbed Swede
named Peterson, from the effec's OF
which he died, At last accounts Sui
livan had not been captured.
A meeting was held at Weston to
, devise ways and means of building a
, Touring mill. A large number OF
farmers were present and several
thousand dollars in money and wheat
were subscribed toward the project.
t Indian Mac killed Indian Johnson
e near Randolph, by cutting his throat
0 Johnson was one of the Indians sus
n pected of being implicated in the muir
n der Of a white man on Dead Mar
h slough, Coquille river, in early days.
A man named Arch Hastings, il
Polk county, was run over and fatally
n injured while driving four-hors,
v team, of which he lost control. The
4 team ran away, and Hastings wa'
s thrown under the wagon, the wheels
a passing across his breast.
"a Articles of incorporation of the East
y ern Oregon Coal & Railway Company
"a have been filed. Principal place o
n business, Portland; capital stock, So,
l. 100000; objects, to mine coal in Gil
is liam county, and operate railroad con
n Meeting coal mines with the o. R. & N
Co.'s line.
w Capt. Hansen, Of the John F. Miller
NJ brought chicken hawk 10 Coos cit,
"a with him which he captured on tn
Of up trip. The vessel was 400 miles OF
ID shore when the hawk came on board
lie A string was attached to its leg, ant
O. the presumption is that it escape,
re from some other ship.
j. Miss Lizzie Mcneil. teacher in tb
is Albany public schools, has resigne,
tie and departed for Liberia, Africa, a
I'd teacher and missionary. She will b
I'll joined at New York city by forty-nin
Sc other ladies, who go under the direc
RS ton OF the NJ. E. Church as mission
or aries to Western Africa
I'd A fatal accidental shooting occurre
ce near Clearwater. l. 7. Herrick,
d twelve-year-old boy, was handling
k revolver when the weapon was acc
i'll IDENTIFY discharged. The ball too
Is, effect IN the stomach of the boys it'll
Is sister, Bessie, 9 years old, who was si
ting on a lounge in room at tn
time.
III Lou Rittner's child, of Kings vale,
Il, !, Benton county, while playing aroun,
lH the yard, ran across potash can tina
~ its mother thought she had cleane
Nc out. The child drank what little re
- - NAMED in the can, burning its mout
n and throat in horrible manner. TIL
~ parents think the child cannot live q
ll' 1t cannot eat anything since the acc
- dent
VI VI There is peculiar kind of diseas
~ among cattle which has recent
-, showed itself, and it seems that n
az one knows what it is, says La Grand
he he paper. The only cases SO far reporte
81 are among cattle that have been ran,
W. ing IN the trush along the rive
w. Cattle on the hills and the valley a,
" not affected. The only symptoms ,
the disease is blindness, and II
cd thought it is produced by eating DO
~ sonous weeds.
Of Albert w. Ely, the engineer j
a charge OF the Northern Pacific trai
Mt which ran into the wagon of John
no benham at Columbia city and kille
ct nm, was arrested on charge of culp
av BILE negligence. This was based q
H. the TACT that the train was running
unusual speed. The body was carrie
l2'4 feet from where the engine struc
N, the wagon to where it stopped, befo,
ma .he tram could be stopped by the a